Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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> mlw wrote:
> >
> > Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > >
> > > mlw wrote:
> > > > Many operating systems used a fixed memory block size allocation for
> > > > their disk cache. They do not allocate a new block for every disk
> > > > request, they maintain a pool of fixed sized buf
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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> mlw wrote:
> > Many operating systems used a fixed memory block size allocation for
> > their disk cache. They do not allocate a new block for every disk
> > request, they maintain a pool of fixed sized buffer blocks. So if you
> > use fewer bytes than the OS block size
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
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> mlw wrote:
> >
> > Tom Samplonius wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, mlw wrote:
> > >
> > > > Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, mlw wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > This is just a curiosity.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Why is the default postgres
Tom Samplonius wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, mlw wrote:
>
> > Tom Samplonius wrote:
> > >
> > > On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, mlw wrote:
> > >
> > > > This is just a curiosity.
> > > >
> > > > Why is the default postgres block size 8192? These days, with caching
> > > > file systems, high speed DMA disks
